Rain, Chickens, Baby Butiki!!!
First of all, what the fuck is up with the weather, huh? It's been pouring the past few days. Evenings and mornings have been insanely cold. My plants, who might have previously been dancing joyfully at the rain with their slow, 1-millimeter-a-day movement kind of dance, are now waterlogged. Serioso, let up already! I'm so white and I need a tan. We miss the sun :)
This cold weather makes me reconsider my decision to spend Christmas in the States again.
(When you think of trips out, you tend to sift selectively through the memories, leaving out the inconveniences. I think Europe I think yay, leisure, sun, artisan food, adventure, hurray! I think, what a fucking riot it was sleeping on that beach in Santander-- but I don't exactly dwell on when the cold gripped me and seeped through my every pore and inhabited my bones, and how comfortable are you when something as alien as the dry northern wind lives beneath your blood and freezes it over?? I think the States and I think family, concerts, art.)
On a brighter note, we now have two native white chickens on our property. My dad's employee Pidel gave them to him, raised them from chicks. Certainly a new addition to our garden, which really needs some fowl to get it going and to balance it out and eat insects. Their arrival put everyone in good spirits, my brother and I are forever poking our heads through the side door throughout the day to see where they are and what they are doing.
Supposedly temporarily-- but I'm guessing permanently-- my dad is putting them in the aviary outside my room, where they've already scratched the whole ground up and overturned every rock. He said that soon the male will begin to crow. I can't wait, as my cellphone alarm clock has lost all effectiveness in waking me.
Baby lizard found on dashboard! Cute! Eventually released it onto a tree:
This cold weather makes me reconsider my decision to spend Christmas in the States again.
(When you think of trips out, you tend to sift selectively through the memories, leaving out the inconveniences. I think Europe I think yay, leisure, sun, artisan food, adventure, hurray! I think, what a fucking riot it was sleeping on that beach in Santander-- but I don't exactly dwell on when the cold gripped me and seeped through my every pore and inhabited my bones, and how comfortable are you when something as alien as the dry northern wind lives beneath your blood and freezes it over?? I think the States and I think family, concerts, art.)
On a brighter note, we now have two native white chickens on our property. My dad's employee Pidel gave them to him, raised them from chicks. Certainly a new addition to our garden, which really needs some fowl to get it going and to balance it out and eat insects. Their arrival put everyone in good spirits, my brother and I are forever poking our heads through the side door throughout the day to see where they are and what they are doing.
Supposedly temporarily-- but I'm guessing permanently-- my dad is putting them in the aviary outside my room, where they've already scratched the whole ground up and overturned every rock. He said that soon the male will begin to crow. I can't wait, as my cellphone alarm clock has lost all effectiveness in waking me.
Baby lizard found on dashboard! Cute! Eventually released it onto a tree: